Tribal governments should have the complete authority to investigate and prosecute crimes committed against their citizens.

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the measure under consideration. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to…

The Castro-Huerta ruling ignores the intent of tribal sovereignty, as well as centuries of legal precedent.

Castro-Huerta affirms state criminal jurisdiction--crimes by non-Indians against Indian victims in Indian country.

It misconstrues the plain language of the General Crimes Act. It violates the Constitution separation of powers and disrespects Congress' exclusive authority to legislate over Indian Affairs.

Whenever the U.S. Supreme Court ignores legal history in this way, it violates the legal building blocks of the rule of law and separation of powers.

Nothing in Castro-Huerta invites the Department of Justice to distance itself from its treaty, trust, duty, and responsibility to safeguard the lives of our women and children.

I strongly urge you to hold it as soon as possible so that there would still be time in this Congress for Congress to act to effectively address the Castro-Huerta decision.

Because of Castro-Huerta, our Native women and children will now have to rely on their state and local governments to protect them and governments that until now, have failed to do so.

I wish I could say that state and local governments have historically prioritized the protection of our Native women and children, but they have not.

I believe that the ruling of the Supreme Court to allow for states to also be able to interject into the need for judicial proceedings in the face of tribal sovereignty, I think is just something that is incompatible with the word…